Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) Data

This data set contains the ocean surface wind speed and rain rate data as well as excess brightness temperature data in tropical storms and hurricanes from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) instrument that flew on board the NASA WB-57 aircraft during the Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) project. The data are in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF). Browse imagery are also included.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2015-08-30T00:00:00Z
    End:  2016-10-23T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2015-08-30T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2016-10-23T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 37.85166
Bounding Box South Lat 11.31673
Bounding Box West Long -109.29229
Bounding Box East Long -63.04043
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : HIRAD_data_TCI2015_v2.1.pdf
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format TAR/GNU Zip (.tar.gz/.tgz) (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 1550 MB
Legal Constraints

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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
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Author Daniel J. Cecil ORCID icon
Sayak K. Biswas
W. Linwood Jones ORCID icon
Faisal Alquaied ORCID icon
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2016-10-18T17:09:27
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6CF9NGC
Alternate Identifier 488.005
Resource Version 2.1
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:44:57Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::488.005
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Daniel J. Cecil, Sayak K. Biswas, W. Linwood Jones, Faisal Alquaied. (2016). Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) Data. 2.1. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6CF9NGC. Accessed 23 January 2026.

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